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Red Rodney Ira Sullivan Chicago Jazz 1980 WBEZ

by: WBEZ

Publication date: 1980-08-29

Topics: Red Rodney, Ira Sullivan, Chicago Jazz Festival, WBEZ, Charlie Parker, FM broadcast, live concert

Language: English

Item Size: 149.3M

Live performance by the Red Rodney-Ira Sullivan Quintet at the 1980 Chicago Jazz Festival in Grant Park Chicago, on 8/29/1980. The festival was broadcast on the Jazz Alive program on WBEZ FM, Chicago's NPR station.

This evening of the CJF was dedicated to celebrating Charlie Parker's 60th birthday. This was the second set of the evening's Jazz Alive broadcast.

Thanks to Mark Rabin for another FM recording from his collection.

Red Rodney & Ira Sullivan continued to collaborate during the 80's, here is a review of their performance at the 1984 Montreal Jazz Festival, with an audio file link:

https://pastdaily.com/2020/06/21/red-rodney-ira-sullivan-quintet-live-at-the-montreal-jazz-festival-1984-past-daily-downbeat/

Listen to more Chicago Jazz Festival broadcasts on FM Radio Archive:

https://archive.org/details/fmradioarchive?tab=collection&query=chicago+jazz+festival&and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22Chicago+Jazz+Festival%22